6 James Nicoll Quotes on Literature

James Nicoll quotes on literature

2. Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

3. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.

4. This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan.

29. I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

37. Goodkind is noted for subtle allegories the same way Mt Kilimanjaro is known for floating weightlessly.

42. I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.